Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Russell Lowell, poet, critic and diplomat

17. Making a decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Elizabeth Stone

18. Anyone who doesn't miss the past never had a mother.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Gregory Nunn

19. A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Tenneva Jordan

20. Few misfortunes can befall a boy which brings worse consequences than to have a really affectionate mother.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: W. Somerset Maugham

21. The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Fenton

22. No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Florida Scott-Maxwell

23. Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Betty Rollin

24. Women do not have to sacrifice personhood if they are mothers. They do not have to sacrifice motherhood in order to be persons. Liberation was meant to expand women's opportunities, not to limit them. The self-esteem that has been found in new pursuits can also be found in mothering.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Elaine Heffner

25. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: James Joyce

26. All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defense. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Germaine Greer

27. Woman in the home has not yet lost her dignity, in spite of Mother's Day, with its offensive implication that our love needs an annual nudging, like our enthusiasm for the battle of Bunker Hill.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: John Erskine

28. All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Oscar Wilde

29. The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.

She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Rajneesh

30. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Author Unknown

31. A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Peter De Vries

32. All mothers are working mothers.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Author Unknown

33. The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Oliver Wendell Holmes34. Motherhood is priced; Of God, at price no man may dare/To lessen or misunderstand.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Helen Hunt Jackson

35. It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Barbara Kingsolve

36. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Jewish proverb

37. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Abraham Lincoln

38. Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs... since the payment is pure love.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Mildred B. Vermont

39. Nobody knows of the work it makes

To keep the home together.

Nobody knows of the steps it takes,

Nobody knows-but Mother.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Anonymous

40. If the whole world were put into one scale, and my mother in the other, the whole world would kick the beam.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Henry Bickersteth

41. Mother - that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: T. DeWitt Talmage

42. There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.

Inspirational Quotes on Mothers Day by: Chinese Proverb

43. When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.